Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big

Re:Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big by px43 on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:51PM (#39797282)

I actually talked about this with Gavin (who was running the project back then) in 2013. It wasn't a priority, and it almost certainly never will be.

Vitalik, on the other hand, has always made quantum resistance a priority, and the account abstraction model and pluggable signature schemes are just now starting to take off. Basically, you can deploy a smart contract to hold your assets, and part of the smart contract is that to move assets from the contract, you need to sign a message with something other than the typical ecdsa signatures. There are some wallets today that you can even send funds with passkey signatures, which will use the keys sitting in hardware on modern phones.

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Re:Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big by jmprspret on Saturday March 23, 2024 @08:17AM (#39799382)

Am I just supposed to know who fucking "Gavin" and "Vitalik" are?

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Re:Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big by grayhatter on Saturday March 23, 2024 @12:18PM (#39800973)

you? probably no. I'm pretty confident that comment was only for the other crypto bros.

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Re:Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big by Vecr on Saturday March 23, 2024 @11:45AM (#39800744)

I can't remember Gavin's name, but Vitalik is Vitalik Buterin.

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Re:Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big by ramchip on Sunday March 24, 2024 @04:58AM (#39805909)

For others like me wondering what "the project" is, I think it's Ethereum.

> Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin, better known as Vitalik Buterin is a Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum.

> Gavin James Wood is an English computer scientist, a co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot and Kusama.

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